Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 20
He lived near the beach, where he kept a small fleet of canoes.
Who acts: Paao · What happens: live, keep · To what, where: beach, small fleet
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paao), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 beach | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beach | det |
| 5 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 kept | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fleet | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fleet | amod |
| 12 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 canoes | case |
| 14 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fleet | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Paao | the beach | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near beach=Location | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | Paao | a small fleet of canoes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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